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Long, long ago, in a discussion of mainstream media coverage of trends in Iran, Bill Moyers told me that most journalists are “tone deaf to the music of religion.” He has used that same image in other settings.
Love it or hate it, the Washington Post is a fine newspaper and it is very rare to see a story hit its front page with a large and glaring hole in it. But that’s what happened today, with the story that ran with the headline “Some Abortion Foes Shifting Focus From Ban to Reduction.”
For those of you who are looking for prime examples of the “big ideas” that motivate us at this here weblog, here’s one.
Surely, this Baltimore Sun Navy Academy feature story breaks some kind of record for most uses of forms of the words “faith” and “prayer” in a sports story. But if you’re looking for facts and details, forget it.
What do you know! One of the newspapers in a region linked to the story of the monk formerly known as Jonah Paffhausen has noticed that he was raised — 12 whole days after being consecrated as an auxiliary bishop in Dallas — to the position of metropolitan (think archbishop) of the scandal-torn Orthodox Church in America.
Well, you have to admit that this Texas-sized story is a whole lot more exciting to write about than a monk from Dallas being elected leader of the scandal-rocked Orthodox Church in America. Right?
There was a stunning, amazing news story yesterday in the struggling, scandal-rocked Orthodox Church in America and the man at the center of it used be known as James Paffhausen.
Celebrity news is not a big part of what we do here, but when a story is about an actor as colorful as Mark Wahlberg, don’t you want to know some of the details when the headline is as provocative as this one?
Just the other day, I paid my first-ever visit to that amazing campus on the hillside above Oakland — the University of California at Berkeley.
